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The International who's who ; who's who in the world, incorporated with the International blue book … a biographical dictionary of the world's notable living men and women, 1910
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1ORCHARD, Peter Francis, M.A., F.B.I.M.; British business executive; b. 25 March 1927, Bromley, Kent; s. of Edward Henslowe and Agnes Marjory Orchard (née Willett); m. Helen Sheridan 1955; two s. two d.; ed. Downside School, Bath, Magdalene Coll., Cambridge; joined De La Rue Company Ltd. 1950; Man. Dir. Thomas De La Rue SA, Brazil 1959-61; Man. Dir. Thomas De La Rue Int. 1962-70; Dir. De La Rue Co. Ltd. 1963-; Chair. Thomas De La Rue Int. 1970-72; Dir. of Manpower, De La Rue Co. 1972-75, Exec. Dir. Security and Graphics Divs. 1975-77, Chief Exec. De La Rue Co. Ltd. 1977-. Leisure interest: Court of Assistants, The Drapers Co. Address: The De La Rue Company Ltd., 3-5 Burlington Gardens, London, W1A 1DL, England (Office). Telephone: 01-734 8020.
3OREFFICE, Paul F(austo); B.S.; American company executive; b. 29 Nov. 1927, Venice, Italy; s. of Max and Elena (Friedenberg) Oreffice; m. Franca Giuseppina Ruffini 1956; one s. one d.; ed. Purdue Univ.; joined Dow Chemical Int., Midland, Mich. 1953, Mediterranean Area Sales Man., Milan, Italy 1955-56, Man. Dow Quinica do Brazil, São Paulo 1956-63, Gen. Man. Dow Int., Spain 1963-65, Gen. Man. Dow Chemical Latin America 1965-67, Pres. Dow Chemical Inter-American Ltd. 1967-69, Financial Vice-Pres. The Dow Chemical Co. 1969-75, Dir. Dow Chemical Co. 1971-, Pres. Dow Chemical U.S.A. 1975-78, Chair. Exec. Cttee. Dow Chemical Co. 1978-, Pres. and Chief Exec. Officer 1978-; Dir. First Midland Bank & Trust Co. 1969, European-American Bank and Trust Co. 1975-, Dow Corning Corp. 1976-, Mfg. Chemists' Assn. 1977-; Chair. American Industrial Health Council 1977-; mem. Nat. Board of Dirs. Junior Achievement Inc. 1977-; Encomienda del Merito Civil (Spain) 1966; Hon. D.Eng. (Purdue) 1976. Leisure interests: tennis, bridge, golf, various other sports. Address: The Dow Chemical Company, 2030 Dow Center, Midland, Mich., U.S.A. (Office). Telephone: (517) 636-3115.
5O'REGAN, (Andrew) Brendan; Irish business executive; b. 15 May 1917, Co. Clare; s. of James and Norah O'Regan; m.; two s. three d.; ed. Blackrock Coll., Dublin; Comptroller, Sales and Catering, Shannon Airport 1943-73; Chair. Bord Failte Eireann 1957-73, Shannon Free Airport Devt. Co. 1959-, State Agencies Devt. Co-operation Org. (DEVCO) 1974-. Leisure interests: sailing, riding. Address: Shannon International Free Airport, Co. Clare (Office); Fort Henry, Killaloe, Co. Clare, Ireland (Home).
7OREJA AGUIRRE, Marcelino; Spanish diplomatist and government official; b. 13 Feb. 1935; entered diplomatic service 1958; Dir. Tech. Office of Minister of Foreign Affairs 1962; fmr. Asst. Dir., Prof. of Foreign Affairs at Escuela Diplomática; mem. Dels. to UN, IMF, IDB, OECD; mem. interministerial cttee. drafting bill for religious freedom; Dir. of Int. Relations, Banco de España 1971-74; Under-Sec. for Information and Tourism 1974, for Foreign Affairs Dec. 1975; Minister of Foreign Affairs July 1976-; Senator by royal appointment June 1977. Address: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Plaza de la Provincia 1, Madrid 12, Spain.
9OREK, Osman Nuri; Cypriot lawyer and politician; b. 1925; ed. Turkish Lycée, Nicosia, Univ. of Istanbul and Middle Temple, London; Founder-mem. Cyprus-is-Turkish Assn., London, Chair. 1951-52; Sec. Nicosia Branch, Cyprus Turkish Nat. Union Party 1953-55, Sec.-Gen. 1955-60, Deputy Chair. July 1960-; Deputy Chair. High Council of Evcaf 1956-60; rep. Turkish Cypriot Community at London Conf. 1959 and subsequent Joint Cttee.; Minister of Defence 1959; mem. Exec. Council of Turkish Cypriot Provisional Admin. for Defence 1967-74, concurrently for Internal Affairs 1967-70, and External Affairs 1967-74; mem. Exec. Council of Autonomous Turkish Cypriot Admin. for Vice-Presidency and Defence 1974-75; Vice-Pres. Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (TFSC) Feb. 1975-, Minister of Defence 1975-76; Speaker, TFSC Legis. Ass. 1976-78; Prime Minister 1978-79; independent mem. Legis. Ass. Dec. 1978-; Leader Nat. Unity Party 1978-. Address: 10 Ismail Beyoglu Street, Lefkosa, Mersin 10, Turkey (Home).
11OREL, Admiral Aleksandr Yevstafiyevich; Soviet naval officer; b. 25 Aug 1908, Leningrad; ed. General Staff Acad.; Merchant marine sailor, secondary technical school student, captain's mate 1924-29; Naval Service 1929-; Commdr. of ships and formations 1941-59; Commdr. Baltic Fleet 1959-67; Chief of Naval Acad. 1967-; mem. CPSU 1937-; Deputy to U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet 1962-70; Order of Lenin (twice), Order of October Revolution, Order of Red Banner and other decorations. Address: Ministry of Defence, Naberezhnaya M. Thorez 34, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
13OREM, Charles Reace, B.A., LL.B.; American business executive; b. 23 Aug. 1916, Nashville, Tenn.; s. of Charles and Helen (Adcock) Reace; m. Martha Haley 1945; one d.; ed. Columbia Univ. School of Business Admin., Fordham Univ. School of Law, Univ. of Kentucky, New York Univ. Graduate School of Business and Harvard Univ. Graduate School of Business; with Shell Oil Co. 1939-51; admitted to New York bar 1951; Man. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. 1952-54; Asst. Treas. Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. 1955-60; with Pickands, Mather & Co. Cleveland 1961-64, during which time he was Vice-Pres. (Finance) and Dir.; Vice-Pres. and Controller, Armour and Co. (now subsidiary of Greyhound Corpn.) 1964-65, Financial Vice-Pres. 1965-67, Sr. Admin. and Financial Vice-Pres. 1967-68, Pres. 1968-71; Dir., Pres. and Chief Exec. Officer Investors Diversified Services Inc. 1971-, Chair., Trustee and Dir. of numerous subsidiaries; mem. Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, Dir. 1973-. Address: Investors Diversified Services Inc., 2900 IDS Tower, Minneapolis, Minn. 55402 (Office); 4904 Merilane Ave., Edina, Minn. 55436, U.S.A. (Home).
15ORESCANIN, Gen. Bogdan, LL.M.; Yugoslav diplomatist; b. 27 Oct 1916, Perna; s. of Sima and Marija Orescanin; m. Sonja Dapcevic 1947; ed. Grammar School, Zagreb, Univ. of Zagreb and Belgrade Higher Mil. Acad.; Corps Commdr. and Gen., Nat. Liberation Struggle 1941; Asst. and Deputy Chief of Gen. Staff and Asst. Defence Sec. 1945; Mil. Attaché to U.K. 1952-54; mem. Parl., Fed. Council, Chair. Cttee. for Nat. Defence, Foreign Affairs Cttee., Exec. Board of Yugoslav Group of Interparl. Union; Amb. to People's Repub. of China, Dem. People's Repub. of Korea, Dem. Repub. of Viet-Nam 1970-73, to U.K. 1973-76; Order of the Nat. Hero and many other decorations. Publications: Military Aspects of the Struggle for World Peace, National Independence and Socialism, several studies and articles on political and military subjects. Leisure interest: literature. Address: c/o Federal Secretariat for Foreign Affairs, Kneza Miloša 24, 1100 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
17ORFF, Carl; German composer; b. 10 July 1895, Munich; s. of Heinrich and Paula Orff (née Koestler); one d.; ed. Akademie der Tonkunst, Munich; Prof. and Head of Master Class of Musical Composition, Hochschule für Musik, Munich, until 1960; Head of Orff Inst. at Mozarteum Acad., Salzburg 1961-; mem. Bavarian Acad. of Fine Arts; mem. Swedish Acad., Acad. di Santa Cecilia, Rome, etc.; Dr. h.c.; Orden pour le Mérite (Fed. Repub. of Germany); Prize of the Goethe-Stiftung, Basle 1969. Compositions: Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, Trionfo di Afrodite, Die Kluge, Der Mond, Antigone, Die Bernauerin, Ōdipus der Tyrann, Astutuli, Comoedia de Christi Resurrectione, Ludus de nato Infante mirificus, Prometheus, Schulwerk, De temporum fine comoedia 1973. Publication: Carl Orff und Sein Werk Vols. I-IV (autobiographical). Address: St. Georgen, 8918 Diessen Ammersee, Federal Republic of Germany.
19ORFILA, Alejandro; Argentine diplomatist; b. 9 March 1925, Mendoza; ed. Univ. de Buenos Aires, Stanford and Tulane (New Orleans) Univs.; Sec. Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1946, Moscow 1946; Consul, Warsaw 1947-48, San Francisco 1948-49; Consul-Gen. New Orleans 1949-50; Sec. Washington D.C. 1951-52; Man. José Orfila, Ltda., Mendoza 1952, Dir. of Information, OAS 1953-58; Minister Plenipotentiary, Washington D.C. 1958-60; Amb. to Japan 1960-62; private consultant in int. financial and econ. affairs 1962-73; Amb. to U.S.A. 1973-75; Sec.-Gen. OAS 1975-. Address: Organization of American States, Washington, D.C. 20006, U.S.A.
21ORGAD, Ben Zion; Israeli composer; b. 1926, Germany; ed. Acad. of Music in Jerusalem and Brandeis Univ., U.S.A.; studied violin with Kinory and Bergman and composition with Paul Ben-Haim and Josef Tal; studied in U.S.A. under Aaron Copland (q.v.) and Irving Fine; now Supervisor of Musical Educ., Israel Ministry of Educ. and Culture; Chair. Israel Composers' League; recipient of several awards for compositions. Compositions include: cantatas: The Story of the Spies (UNESCO Koussevitsky Prize 1952), Isaiah's Vision; orchestral: Building a King's Stage, Choreographic Sketches, Movements on 'A', Kaleidoscope, Music for Horn and Orchestra, Ballad for Orchestra, Dialogues on the First Scroll; Hatsvi Israel (baritone and orchestra), Suffering for Redemption (mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra), Out of the Dust (for solo and instruments); Ballada (for violin), Taksim (for harp), Monologue (for viola); works for soloists and orchestra, songs, piano pieces, etc. Address: Ministry of Education and Culture, Hadar-Daphna Building, Tel-Aviv (Office); 14 Bloch Street, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Home). Telephone: 254122 (Office).
23ÖRKÉNY, István; Hungarian writer; b. 5 April 1912, Budapest; s. of Hugo Örkény and Margit Pető; m. Zsuzsa Radnóti 1964; one s. one d.; ed. Tech. Univ. of Budapest; Mil. service, World War II; has written short stories, novels and plays; József Attila Prize 1955, 1967, Kossuth Prize 1973. Publications short stories: Tengertánc 1941, Lágerek népe (The Lager People) 1947, Budai böjt (Fasting in Buda) 1948, Idegen föld (Alien Earth) 1949, Ezüstpiszttráng (Silver Trout) 1956, Jeruzsálem hercegnője (Princess of Jerusalem) 1967, Nászutasok a légypapíron (Honeymoon on the Fly-Paper) 1967, Egyperces novellák (One Minute Stories 1968, in
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